The 1941 Holy Cross Crusaders football team was an
American football
American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team wi ...
team represented the
College of the Holy Cross as an independent during the
1941 college football season
The 1941 college football regular season was the 73rd season of intercollegiate football in the United States. Competition included schools from the Big Ten Conference, the Pacific Coast Conference (PCC), the Southeastern Conference (SEC), the B ...
. In its third and final season under head coach
Joe Sheeketski
Joseph L. Sheeketski (April 15, 1908 – April 22, 1995) was an American football player, coach, and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at the College of the Holy Cross from 1939 to 1941 and at the University of ...
, the team compiled a 4–4–2 record and was outscored by a total of 104 to 103.
Two Holy Cross players were selected by the
United Press
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as first-team players on the 1941 All-New England football team: quarterback Francis L. Saba and fullback
John Grigas.
Holy Cross was ranked at No. 73 (out of 681 teams) in the final rankings under the
Litkenhous Difference by Score System for 1941.
The team played its home games at
Fitton Field
Fitton Field is a football stadium in Worcester, Massachusetts primarily used for College of the Holy Cross sporting events. The stadium opened in 1908 as the official home for the Holy Cross Crusaders football team. Before that, most games were ...
in
Worcester, Massachusetts
Worcester ( , ) is a city and county seat of Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. Named after Worcester, England, the city's population was 206,518 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, making it the second-List of cities i ...
.
Schedule
References
Holy Cross
Holy Cross Crusaders football seasons
Holy Cross Crusaders football
The Holy Cross Crusaders football team is the collegiate American football program of the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. The team is a member of the Patriot League, an NCAA Division I conference that participates in the F ...
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